¶ Ahaziahu reygneth in the roume of Iehorain. Ieh•••• kynge of Israell kylleth Ahaziahu. Athalia putteth to death all the the ••ynges lyu••ge, onely Ioas ••••capcth.
CAPI. XXII.
ANd * 1.1 the enhabitoures of Ierusalem made Ahaziahu his yonge son kyng in [unspec A] his steade. For the men of warre * 1.2 that came wt the hoost of the Arabians, had sleyne al his eldest sonnes. And so Ahaziahu the son of Iehorā kyng of Iuda, was made kynge. ☞ Xlii. yere olde was he, when he began to reygne, & he reygned one yere in Ierusalem. His mothers name was Athalia the dough∣ter of Amri. And he walked also in the wayes of the house of Ahab, for his mother (by her coūsayle) entysed hym to do wyckedly. Wher fore he dyd that which was euyl in the syght of the lorde, as did they that were of the house of Ahab: for they were his coūsaylours after the death of his father, to his destruccion.
And he walked after theyr counsayle, and [unspec B] went with Iehorā son of Ahab kynge of Is∣rael, to fyght agaynst Hazael kyng of Siria at Ramoth in Gilead: & the Sirians smote Iorā. And he returned to be healed in Iezreel of the woundes whiche were gyuen hym at Rama, when he fought with Hazael kyng of Siria. And Ahaziahu the son of Iehorā king of Iuda went downe to se Iehoram the son of Ahab at Iezreel, bycause he was diseased. And it came of God, that Ahaziahu shulde be despysed for his comyng to Iehorā: for when be was come, he went out wt Iehorā agaynst Iehu the sonne of Nimsi, * 1.3 whom the Lorde had anoynted to destroy the house of Ahab.
And so it came to passe that whē Iehu was [unspec C] executyng iustice vpon the house of Ahab, & had founde the lordes of Iuda & the sonnes of the brethren of Ahaziahu that waytch on Ahaziahu, he slue them, * 1.4 And he sought Aha¦ziahu, & they caught hym where he was hyd in Samaria, and brought hym to Iehu. And when they had sleyne hym, the buryed hym: Bycause (sayd they) he is, the son of Iehosa∣phat, which sought the lorde with al his hert. And the house of Ahaziahu had no power to kepe styll the kyngdome. * 1.5 But when Atha∣lia the mother of Ahaziahu, sawe that her son [unspec D] was dead, she arose & destroye all the kynges ••eed in the kynred of the house of Iuda. And Iehosabeath the doughter of the kyng, toke Ioas the son of Ahaziahu, & stale hym from among the kynges sonnes that were ••ley••••, & put hym and his nurce in a preuy ••hambre. And so Iehosabeath the doughter of kynge Iehoram, the wyfe of Iehoida the preest & the syster of Ahaziahu hyd hym fro Athalia that he was nor sleyne. And so he was with them hyd in the house of God syxe yere. And Athalia reygned ouer the lande.